Posts Tagged ‘wireless’

We are pleased to announce the launch of the latest addition to the T24 wireless telemetry system for multiple data acquisition in real time. The T24-RM1 is a new generation of relay module that offers 2 power relays each of which can be assigned a set point and triggered from either one T24 acquisition module or a summed group of up to 8 units.

The T24-RM1 dual 240Vac 5A relay modules are capable of mains power switching and have been designed as limit or window alarms for the T24 acquisition units. The relays can be latched and a digital input or external command can be used to reset them. An alarm signal relay is operated if communications is lost or other selectable errors occur. This alarm output can be silenced by a contact free digital input or external command.

The T24 system has been built using a worldwide, licence free 2.4GHz direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communication protocol that guarantees high integrity, error free digital data transmission. This can also co-exist with other commonly used protocols such as Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and ETSI. The modules have internal antennas that deliver a wireless range of up to 200m (650ft) are supplied as standard in IP65 sealed ABS cases, with a DIN rail option available, if required.

With wireless configuration and calibration, T24-RM1 is easy to set up via a PC and the user-friendly Windows package T24 toolkit software. LCM Systems can offer a fully integrated system solution comprising of load cells and wireless telemetry products, packaged into a fully functional bespoke solution to meet customers’ specific requirements.

tell us your application because you never know, we may be able to help with a better solution to your problem.

I say this because recently I had a little chuckle when talking to a customers of ours about their particular application. We sell a lot of our load cells for lifting and weighing applications, particularly for cranes. In this case, the customer had installed some equipment for load monitoring with the readout on the ground, this meant that when the crane was holding its maximum load, someone on the ground had to shout up to the man in the cab that the limit had been reached. Obviously this has lots of drawbacks, not least that it becomes a two-man job and requires vigilance and a loud voice! By using a load cell with a telemetry/wireless option, then the operator can see directly that the load limit is being reached and can plan his actions accordingly.

It’s a win-win situation. You tell us your application and we can suggest the best possible solution, either from our standard range or a customisedÂ solution from our in-house designers.

So, you can shout about that 🙂

There are many pitfalls with naming products. There are wonderful stories about how car names, for instance, when translated into indigenous languages can suddenly have a totally difference meaning.

Thereâ€™s a great website looking at cultural differences, internationalisation, translation and software engineering that has a great page on Marketing Translation Mistakes. Some are just a bit too rude to publish on here, but just click on the link and have a good laugh. Itâ€™s not due to a lack of imagination that we refer to our products by initials and numbers!

But itâ€™s not really translations I want to talk about here, it is how some words become accepted as descriptors but others just donâ€™t catch on or are used in a different context. I came across this recently when we launched our range of Shackle Load Cells. As well as the cabled models, 2 new wireless telemetry versions are also available. [Now, this isnâ€™t the place to talk about how great they are â€“ you can find that out by clicking on the link to LCM Systemsâ€™ Corporate website.].

Before launch I wrote the pages for the website, the downloadable data sheets and briefed our PR agency to write press releases and articles. All our promotional data talked about telemetry shackles. Now, they are telemetry load cells. Telemetry derives from the Greek, tele = remote and metron = measure and is now widely used throughout industry as a technique that enables remote measurement and reporting of a wide range of information. In the widest sense of the term, it includes data transferred over hard wired systems but is generally used to refer to wireless methodology using radio or infrared systems.

BUT, and itâ€™s a big but (no sniggering at the back please), engineers using load cells tend to refer to this particular type of product as wireless. So, we have wireless shackle cells, wireless data acquisition (WDA), wireless networking etc., whereas a quick Google search for â€˜telemetryâ€™ brings up information about companies manufacturing and supplying modems and enabling transfer of information to remote locations.

So, in future itâ€™s Wireless Shackle load cells.

So, what do you think? Am I right? Would you search Google for wireless or telemetry load cells?

It’s been a busy time here on the Isle of Wight as business continue to thrive and we’ve been seeing orders for out load cells come in form all over the world.

But, we’ve got some interesting blogs coming up over the next couple of months. It all kicks off on Monday morning – October 18th – when I’ll talk about the words we use. This is particularly in relation to our business and using wireless rather than telemetry.

Anyway, bookmark this page and come back to us on Monday to find out more. There will also be an announcement on Twitter and you can link directly from there or follow us @lcmsystems